A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
10 best books like A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War (Susan Griffin): Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, Man Made Language, Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice, Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon, Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010, Women of the Left Bank, Selected Essays, The Battersea Park Road to Paradise
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
| Author | Andrea Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0826494420 |
Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the "post-feminist" present. Heartbreak reveals for the first time the...
| Author | Dale Spender |
| ISBN | 0863584012 |
I have long been fascinated by the topic of this book: how sexist language shapes our consciousness, our reality.
Published in 1980, this is not a light read, rather academic in style. Much of it was engaging, some of it was repetitive.
We learn of the many ways in which women have been...
Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice
| Author | John Stoltenberg |
| ISBN | 1841420417 |
Since its original publication in 1989, Refusing to be a Man has been acclaimed as a classic and widely cited in gender studies literature. In 13 eloquent essays, Stoltenberg articulates the first fully argued liberation theory for men that will also liberate women. He argues that male sexual identity...
Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk – about childhood and parents and...
Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals
| Author | Marilyn French |
| ISBN | 0345334051 |
This book... did more to expand my thinking, raise my consciousness and anger.
With friends/family, I would bring up something I had just read in "Beyond Power" only to have her/him/them fight tooth and nail as to why it wasn't so. I would say, "Why don't you read it, French says it so much better...
| Author | Gerda Lerner |
| ISBN | 0195090608 |
A pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History. The Creation of Patriarchy, the first book in her two-volume Women and History Series...
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 0822349779 |
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer,...
| Author | Shari Benstock |
| ISBN | 0292790406 |
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
As seen in these...
| Author | Isabel Losada |
| ISBN | 1907486399 |
In her bestseller The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Isabel Losada set out with a modest aim to be absurdly happy every day. But a few years down the road, she's stuck in a pothole. No job (not good). No man (very not good). Nothing has turned out as she'd intended.
There's only one way to...
| Author | Rosalind C. Barnett |
| ISBN | 0465006132 |
From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. But as the New York...
Chen Jiangshui is a pig-butcher in a small coastal Taiwanese town. Stocky, with a paunch and deep-set beady eyes, he resembles a pig himself. His brutality towards his new young wife, Lin Shi, knows no bounds. The more she screams, the more he likes it. She is further isolated by the vicious gossip of her...
| Author | Yvonne Vera |
| ISBN | 0374528160 |
Yvonne Vera's novels chronicle the lives of Zimbabwean women with extraordinary power and beauty. Without a Name and Under the Tongue, her two earliest novels, are set in the seventies during the guerrilla war against the white government.
In Without a Name (1994), Mazvita, a young woman...
| Author | Nawal El Saadawi |
| ISBN | 1856496805 |
Nawal El Saadawi, writer and freedom fighter, has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. In her life and in her writings, this struggle against sexual discrimination has always been linked to a struggle against...
| Author | Elaine Showalter |
| ISBN | 0140115870 |
This book looks at parallels between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in literature, art and film. This book ranges over the trial of Oscar Wilde, the public furore over prostitution and syphilis, moral outrage over the breakdown of the family, abortion rights and AIDS....
| Author | Robin L. Riley |
| ISBN | 1848130198 |
Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war.
The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists...
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0805057226 |
San Francisco Chronicle best-seller.
Wounds of Passion is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, Bell Hooks critically reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on our lives. Resisting the notion that love and writing...
| Author | Alice James |
| ISBN | 1555533973 |
Unlike her ubiquitous brothers, psychologist and philosopher William and novelist Henry, Jr., Alice James (1848-1892)-the youngest child and only daughter of the wealthy, mercurial, and eccentric New Englander Henry James, Sr.-passed much of her brief lifetime at home, largely isolated from...
| Author | Juana Inés de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 0140447032 |
A bilingual edition of writings by Latin America's finest baroque poet
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her bishop's injunction against her intellectual pursuits. A passionate and subversive defense...
| Author | Margaret Randall |
| ISBN | 0822355922 |
Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains a part of me."...
| Author | Michael Knapp |
| ISBN | 0745336647 |
Given the widespread violence and suffering in Syria, it's not unreasonable that outsiders look at the situation as unrelentingly awful. And while the reality of the devastation is undeniable, there is reason for hope in at least one small pocket of the nation: the cantons of Rojava in Syrian Kurdistan,...
| Author | Jonathan Schell |
| ISBN | 0380613255 |
When Jonathan Schell heard all that loose talk about attainment of objectives in a limited nuclear war, it was too much for him. He did what all of us would like to do: he wrote a book. It's very pessimistic. The mere presence of all those weapons is enough to ensure that sometime, somewhere, someone is going...
In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptable. So Bama Faustina published her milestone work Karukku privately in 1992—a passionate and important mix of history, sociology, and the strength to remember....
Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
| Author | Lynn Sherr |
| ISBN | 0812927184 |
Most of us (both men and women) who take the right to vote for granted have no way to comprehend the struggle it was for those who fought and won that right. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Susan B. Anthony's own words from the beginning of her work with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the mid 1800s to her...
